Rachel Maddow Thanksgiving Special

Rachel Maddow compares lame duck George Bush who was busy pardoning turkeys while president elect Barack Obama gave three consecutive press conferences about the economy, she watches a thanksgiving ad praising Sarah Palin, and gives thanks that we will no longer have a presidential administration filled with criminals and cronies. Happy thanksgiving!
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From the department of awkward timing: Days after video of Sarah Palin's interview in front of slaughtered turkeys became a web sensation, the conservative group Our Country Deserves Better releases a Thanksgiving-themed ad "thanking" Palin.

The opening of the spot features an announcer praising Palin...in front of images of roasted turkeys.
Some text from the email announcing the advertisement:

Friends, too many times we've seen politicians who "sell out" to the media or political pressure and succumb to politically correct, liberal positions, rather than fight for conservative beliefs. But Gov. Sarah Palin has stood steadfast by her conservatism, both in public as a politician, and in her own private life - carrying to full term her baby boy, Trig, rather than opting out for an abortion as some would have had her done. She believed in the value of that life, just as she believes in the greatness of America.

It's time for us to stand behind Sarah Palin now, not just to support her, but to also show other politicians that if they take the risk to champion conservative ideals, that they will find support from we, the American people.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/22/palin-turkey-ad-conservat_n_145735.html
It would be hard to find a more striking contrast of presidential behavior than what transpired in the course of just a few minutes on cable news early Wednesday. As Barack Obama spoke to reporters in Chicago about the grave concerns and frustrations that the economic crisis portends, George W. Bush was making turkey and dog jokes on the White House lawn.

If one hadn't the faintest clue about the American political process, it would be downright confusing to be told that the latter individual was officially in charge. But this is the status of the White House transition: the public is forced to watch as the man without the certified power sounds competent and concerned while the one controlling the levers does a decent imitation of Nero.

In one particularly poignant ten-minute moment, the camera went from Obama accusing leaders in Washington of failing to provide "bold clear decisive steps to deal with our economic problems" to Bush discussing the pardoning of his "feathered friends."

"Just to be safe," said the outgoing president, "I will be pardoning a second bird in the unlikely event the main act chickens out..." Get it? ... "Turkeys are not only the ones on edge this morning. You see, it turns out the Rose Garden is Barney's turf. So the press corps is a little nervous as well." The latter line was a reference to the president's dog recently biting a reporter from Reuters.

"This is an election year, so it is fitting that the names of these two birds were chosen through the Democratic process," Bush went on. "After a long, drawn out election season, the people finally spoke. The name of the ticket sent here to the White House was Pumpkin and Pecan. Pumpkin is right there. Pecan is in an undisclosed location."

It is a Thanksgiving tradition for the president to pardon a turkey. So Bush is excused on that front. And certainly, the hospitalization of his mother was weighing on his mind (he gave thanks for the fact that she was "doing well.") But contrast the geniality of the White House affair to the generally serious and occasionally dire tone that marked Obama's event, in which he announced the formation of an Economic Recovery Adviser board headed by former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker.

"I think [having a third press conference in three days] speaks to is the frustration of eight years in which middle class wages have gone down, or in real terms their family incomes have been reduced," said the president-elect. "It speaks to my frustration about all the families I've met over the last two years that have lost their health insurance or their pensions are in danger, young people who can't afford to go to college. It expresses frustration about our inability to tackle some of the long-term problems that we've been facing and have been talking about for decades, whether it's health care, energy, an education system that's been slipping behind in critical areas like math or science. And most of all, I think frustration with the incapacity of Washington to take bold, clear, decisive steps to deal with our economic problems."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/26/obama-talks-economy-while_n_146669.html

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[rambot02]

Hey, flyboy, your moronic post not only oozes homophobia and anti-Semitism ("kike dyke") but it is factually wrong. Just because Dr. Maddow is wicked smart and has the given name of Rachel doesn't mean she's Jewish.(Your slavish devotion to stereotypes is showing.) Dr. Maddow was, in fact, raise Catholic and has two aunts who are nuns. Your stupidity is matched only by your petty prejudices.

[supertamsf]

I think she's crying over the remains of our beloved Constitution

[popcornfreak828]

Heard this tool's name said the other day.... hmmm, wonder what she's spouting a year later...while Obama is taking planes all over the world and playing more golf in a year than Bush did in 8? Yeah, I think liberals are shutting their f'in mouths more and more. Idiots

[BrandonFerrell]

I hate this woman and 90% of the people on her show. They're just so...snooty, everything is a quip, all the people they disagree with are stupid or simple. Just don't like this kinda stuff, I think the important stuff going on deserves a little more maturity.

But I do think she's pretty hot in an odd way.

[oehieze]

my hottie! :)

[exbronco1980]

america is a ridiculous right wing embarrassment.

[exbronco1980]

raise food stamp allotments day? feed the homeless day? did she forget that GWB is a republican? republicans don't like that kind of stuff. they think poor people should either get richer or die.

[flyboymd82]

MSNBC is a joke! This is supposed to be serious journalism??? LOL!

More like a comedy show for the libtards put on by a kike dyke........or is that thing a tranny???

[supertamsf]

I really like "Feed the Homeless Day"

[beornborg]

I noticed that too. It's a horrible make up job.